1893 
City of Mexico 
(Mexico) 
December 
greater rainfall thence south than on the desert plains northward. 
(There was surprisingly little bustle about the station at San Luis 
Potosi as compared with tho year before, The hard times are also shown 
in the quietness about the R.R. station in the City of Mexico), 
The day I arrived in the City of Mexico, I started for the post- 
office and near there encountered Professor Herrera of the Rational Mus¬ 
eum with Professors Edwards and Halstead of the University of Texas, and 
the Baron Brackel-Welda, a German decayed nobleman long resident here,- 
well-known and well-inforaed in all matters of local interest. He once 
taught French and German here but now lives on the strength of his 
social abilities and relatives in Germany, according to local accounts. 
One of those drifting pieces of old world wreckage we get in -America 
at times, A man of pleasant address and a large amount of miscellaneous 
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information! a great talker and valiant trencherman with a flow of good 
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spirits, at the host's expense. 
On the 50th of December, my assistant, Goldman, came in from Chihua¬ 
hua where he has been during ray three months trip to the U.S. He was in 
the City of Chihuahua during November and early December, while the re¬ 
cent outbreak of revolutionists was going on there. He knew of one 
American who was stopped and his rifle and horse taken although he was 
allowed to keep his pistol and other belongings, Goldman says that soon 
after the revolutionists began that on© evening the military band was 
playing in tho main plaza of the city and the usual considerable number 
of common workmen and loafers gathered to listen to it. Suddenly a squad 
of pclioemon with another squad of soldiers surrounded the plaza, the 
most of the men found there were arrested and herded away to the Cuartel 
vfliere they were forced to enlist. Soon after this the troops were sent 
out and had a severe skirmish with the guerrillas. As a result of this, 
Goldman tells me, a large wagon-load of knapsacks and soldiers' olothing 
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